I think that we really needed this story to conclude with 7.0 as originally planned. Far too much happened in too short a period of time and as such it wasn't able to properly 'settle'. Much of the story also ended up being needlessly convoluted and I daresay it almost feels as though it was written to get maximum 'feels' even at the cost of what made sense to actually occur. Worse yet, certain characters and zones were clearly not given their fair share of time in the spotlight in order to mash everything together.

I also think it jumped the shark and escalated things to a ridiculous degree. I wasn't pleased when WoW did that and I am certainly not pleased with FFXIV going down the same route.